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Custom Blocks Plugin For WordPress
Developers magic wand for WordPress custom blocks. We created Lazy Blocks WordPress plugin, to help every developer get access to the powerful tools they need to quickly run websites based on WordPress block editor (called Gutenberg).
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Create custom blocks visually, add controls to your blocks using drag & drop, write blocks output using HTML or PHP code. You can create custom blocks as well as custom meta fields for specific post types. Furthermore, you are able to create post templates with predefined blocks for any post type.
🚀 Easy To Start
This everything you need to deploy your custom block in WordPress editor:
1. Configure Custom Block
Give a name to your custom block, set icon, category, etc.
2. Add Controls
Add control fields like simple text and complex image selectors.
3. Write Output Code
Output code for your custom block with HTML and PHP support.
🌟 Features
- Custom blocks with output code
- Custom blocks for posts meta fields
- Large set of predefined controls
- Show controls in block content / inspector
- Multiple output methods allowed
- Custom PHP
- Custom HTML + Handlebars
- Template files in theme folder
- Export / Import blocks
🔥 Controls
To manage custom blocks attributes you need to use Controls. Lazy Blocks have a large set of controls predefined for you:
- Basic
- Text
- Textarea
- Number
- Range
- Password
- Content
- Image
- Gallery
- File
- Rich Text
- Classic Editor
- Code Editor
- Inner Blocks
- Choice
- Select
- Radio
- Checkbox
- Toggle
- Advanced
- Color Picker
- Date Time Picker
- Layout
- Repeater
- Custom Controls read our extensive documentation
🏳 Multilingual
Lazy Blocks adds a new layer of compatibility for WPML. All text controls of custom blocks are compatible with WPML and ready for translation. https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/multilingual/
🛠 Built For Developers
Lazy Blocks built by developers, for developers and gives you unlimited freedom to create custom blocks. Furthermore, there are PHP filters and actions to customize every part of your custom blocks from the backend. Possibility to use PHP and theme templates system.
Every UI part should be intuitive for simple custom blocks, but if you want to create something more complex, you may be required to read our extensive documentation.
🔥 Lazy Blocks Pro
The Lazy Blocks plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more controls and features! Learn more about Lazy Blocks Pro
In order to maintain the free version of the plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to:
Additional Controls
- Posts – Search and select posts based on post type or taxonomy
- Taxonomy – Search and select categories, tags and any other custom taxonomies
- Users – Search and select users based on user roles
- Units – Advanced number input with possibility to select any CSS unit
- Message – Display a helpful message between controls
- Code Editor – Insert code parts using editor with syntax highlighting
Controls Conditions
Conditionally display/hide controls. In order not to overload your block with a huge list of controls, you can hide some of them depending on the values of other controls. -
Panels and Dividers
The Panels and Dividers provides a way to structure controls into groups. It assists in better organizing the block panel UI. -
Blocks Preloading
Display blocks preview immediately once the page editor loaded. -
SEO Enhancements
Additional support for content analysis in Rank Math and Yoast SEO plugins.
Find much more custom blocks features of Lazy Blocks Pro today!
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don't need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Lazy Blocks, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type "Lazy Blocks" and click Search Plugins. Once you've found our plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking "Install Now".
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading our Lazy Blocks plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.
योगदानकर्ता र डेभलपरहरू
"Custom Blocks Constructor – Lazy Blocks" खुला स्रोत सफ्टवेयर हो। निम्न व्यक्तिहरूले यो प्लगिनमा योगदान गरेका छन्।
योगदानकर्ताहरू"Custom Blocks Constructor – Lazy Blocks" 9 लोकेलहरूमा अनुवाद गरिएका छन्। योगदानको लागि अनुवादकहरूलाई धन्यवाद।
"Custom Blocks Constructor – Lazy Blocks" लाई आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्नुहोस्
विकासमा रुचि छ?
आरएसएस द्वारा कोड ब्राउज गर्नुहोस्, एसभीएन रिपजिटरी हेर्नुहोस्, वा विकास लग को सदस्यता लिनुहोस्।
- fixed JS error in editor in block containing
tag in content when preview showed
- added support for WordPress 6.3
- all blocks now have
3, which means that in the latest Gutenberg you will have an iframed page editor - fixed block rendering error inside core/group block
- fixed editor error when view block preview or add a couple of reusable blocks
- minor changes
- fixed wrong template rendering in Editor after InnerBlocks component used
- fixed InnerBlocks component rendering number values with
PRO plugin:
- fixed JS error in Posts control in editor
FREE plugin:
- fixed blocks rendering on Widgets screen
- fixed default value with an empty array element of multi select
- fixed JS error in multiple Select control in editor when null value
PRO plugin:
FREE plugin:
- fixed Anchor option and ID attribute rendering in the block wrapper (Gutenberg reverted feature for automatic Anchor render in the dynamic blocks)
PRO plugin:
- added higher priority for block preloading feature to let 3rd-parties hook the output before preloading
FREE plugin:
- added defaults to user registered blocks (fixes the problem, when old registration configs fails when we add new parameters)
- added
method to the Blocks class to allow removing user registered blocks - added filter
- added support for
attribute in<InnerBlocks />
component - skip control assets enqueue if there are no blocks registered (fixes the JS error in editor)
- fixed nested blocks not displaying appender button with InnerBlocks component
PRO plugin:
- added controls conditions based on selected block style or for a specific class name
- added support for Term ID output in Taxonomy control
- added
file as a helper when included within a theme or plugin - added support for Equal and Contains conditions for Units control
- added
condition operators - changed saved attribute of Taxonomy control to ID when selected Term Object
- fixed Posts and URL controls not displaying all available post types
FREE plugin:
- added
<InnerBlocks />
component support. Learn more here – https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/blocks-code/inner-blocks/- it is required to change your block code to use
<InnerBlocks />
component if you use the InnerBlocks control - the old InnerBlocks control is now marked as deprecated and will be removed in future plugin updates
- it is required to change your block code to use
- added possibility to register Block Styles https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-styles/
- added option for Image control to insert from URL
- added new Supports settings – Reusable and Lock
- added possibility to sort tags inside the Select component
- added width support for controls in the constructor UI
- added apiVersion 3 to blocks
- added
method to include plugin within theme or plugin. Learn more here https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/examples/include-lazy-blocks-within-theme-or-plugin/#how-to-include-plugin-files - added
filters. Learn more here https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/lzb-control_value/ - added
method into the Base control class for 3rd-party controls - added JS hook
to use in 3rd-party controls - added helpful attributes to control wrappers such as
- added control values filtering inside the repeater rows
- added
Toggle all
label to Repeater control toggle - improved Repeater control to automatically open a newly added Row
- improved Free block and InnerBlocks appender style in editor (Displays like in core blocks)
- improved usage of Lazy Block's
to prevent conflicts with Gutenberg'srender_callback
- improved meta controls, templates editor – use
instead ofeditPost
- improved Color Picker control:
- use a single toggle to open the full color palette
- added option to disable color palette
- added Alongside text option
- moved Ghost Kit supports settings to separate panel in editor constructor
- moved Edit Block icon to the block toolbar
- changed
method to public in Tools class - changed bundler to
– faster builds and development process - fixed styles loading inside the editor iframe
- fixed block render duplicate custom CSS and anchor
- fixed Classic Editor error in widgets editor
- fixed block constructor styles in editor with Astra theme
- fixed JS error when
field is not added in the PHP block registration - fixed sortable inside editor iframe
- fixed displaying label and help in controls, where these settings are disabled
- fixed duplicate Redux store loading inside editor constructor
- removed CodeEditor component from lazyblocks Redux store (reduced editor.js file size)
- removed
usage, use lodash instead - removed HTML elements from block descriptions, as it is deprecated since WordPress v6.2
PRO plugin:
- added support for Repeater control in the Conditional Logic
FREE plugin:
- added notice for invalid control name when creating block
- fixed Preview component JS actions call after fetch complete
- fixed displaying Date and Time pickers
- fixed Date Time Picker displaying date in the toggle label
PRO plugin:
- fixed block preloading inner-blocks attribute
- fixed displaying controls in columns
FREE plugin:
- added support for WPML
- added "Edit Block" link inside the block description
- fixed incorrect detection of the selected block to hide/show controls and preview
- fixed displaying control label with Required mark
- fixed margin between control and help text
- fixed block render error when add "Hide If Not Selected" option to Inner Blocks control
- fixed error "Render callback is not specified" when preview block with empty output code
- fixed export block PHP closing function call
- fixed JS error when change value of new control inside existing repeater
- fixed Classic Editor and Repeater save attribute conflict
- fixed debounce preview is not always reloaded after changes
- fixed usage of deprecated action "lzb_handlebars_object"
- fixed deprecated warning even if no deprecated hook used
PRO plugin:
- added block preloading feature – all blocks loaded immediately, when you open the page editor
- added support for content analysis in Rank Math and Yoast
- added setting to remove block frame in page editor and display it as native block
- added Link Suggestions option to URL control (select post types to suggest links when typing)
- added Rich Preview option to URL control (display page title and image of selected URL)
FREE plugin:
- added support for Blocks API v2
- added
hook for developers to register blocks in PHP - added autoFocus to constructor control Type popup input search
- added autoFocus to choices component when adding new choice
- added JS filters –
- added PHP filters –
- added PHP actions –
- fixed constructor control Type popup padding
- fixed constructor code preview iframe width
- fixed admin PHP warning when user with Editor role
- fixed blocks conditional displaying in selected post types
- fixed registering user blocks which don't have all control parameters
- fixed registering block inside
hook - fixed BaseControl help with HTML generates JS errors in console
- fixed Select control with Multiple option CSS overflow problem
- fixed templates custom meta settings width
- fixed control label displaying when it is empty
- changed block configs sanitization function priority to prevent possible conflicts
- removed URL control Reset button, use standard icon instead
- disabled custom class name support in Free block
- deprecated action
, uselzb/handlebars/object
PRO plugin:
- Lazy Blocks Pro is finally released and available here – https://www.lazyblocks.com/pro/
FREE plugin:
- a lot of code rewrites to improve stability and performance
- added support for Image control data in the repeater title short tags
- added possibility to save block data with html tags. Supported block description, controls labels and help fields
- added basic styles to the Code Editor control
- added support for "Content Only" lock in Templates
- added support for multiple color palettes (registered in the theme and in Gutenberg itself) in the Color Picker control
- fixed enqueue styles in FSE
- fixed "Hide if block is not selected" option when control displayed in both placements (Inspector and Content)
- fixed "Hide if block is not selected" option to work with inner blocks
- fixed adding defaults to the new row in repeater
- fixed unlocking post saving when remove locked block
- fixed URL control styles
- fixed icon box in admin block list ui when no icon selected
- fixed constructor rendering when 3rd parties use the
hook - fixed widgets screen block error
- fixed Classic Editor control in Widgets Screen
- fixed Rest permissions check errors
- fixed error message displaying when block preview is not rendered
- simplified exported block configs (removed fields with default values)
- changed
– no more error messages in the console - removed limitation for 3 tags per block
- removed wrapper from controls displayed inside Inspector
- minor changes
- added block inserter preview (thanks https://github.com/nk-crew/lazy-blocks/pull/230)
- fixed PHP8 deprecation warning
- fixed security issue in the code for duplicating post (thanks to the Wordfence team)
- minor changes
- added support for color slugs in the Color controls when using new FSE themes
- added code preview in the constructor (thanks https://github.com/nk-crew/lazy-blocks/pull/227)
- fixed propagating cut event in the constructor (thanks https://github.com/nk-crew/lazy-blocks/pull/226)
- removed default value generated for repeaters, as it was not working correctly
- added "Free Content" block in the Templates editor
- fixed PHP warnings when migrating to v2.5.0
- improved Templates editor (now you can use Gutenberg editor and insert full-featured blocks)
- fixed
output of array and object values - fixed Constructor screen title click in WP 5.9
- fixed long block names word wrap in export page
- fixed Color Picker control styles in editor
- changed post types list limit in the templates editor ()
- changed minimal PHP version to 7.2
- added option to use the color slug in the Color Picker control (see Output Format option)
- fixed js errors in the widget screen
- changed minimal WP version to 5.8
- fixed 'wp-editor' deprecated error
- fixed conflict with Widgets Gutenberg editor
- fixed repeater sorting error
- removed accepted list for file control Upload button since it is not working correctly in some cases
- added support for WordPress 5.8
- added a lot of UI improvements
- added slug check in the block name before register block (fixes possible errors)
- added placeholder color in image and gallery controls if images no more exist in media library
- added control names autocompletion to code editor in the blocks constructor
- fixed multiple select control wrong height and styles
- fixed displaying control post meta using function
when live reload preview - fixed Classic Control toolbar sticky
- fixed Date Control JS error
- fixed long words render in control labels and descriptions
- fixed PHP 8 deprecated error
- fixed wrong activation hook call
- added compatibility with WordPress 5.7
- added possibility to display default meta value (without hard code, using native WordPress 5.5+ API)
- improved date time picker styles
- improved constructor controls rendering code
- fixed double classes rendering in editor, when Single Output code enabled
- minor changes
- added possibility to duplicate blocks
- added top toolbar to admin pages
- improved Date Time picker
- always display TimePicker component (to let users manually set day, month and year)
- display only necessary parts of TimePicker component
- better format on button label
- changed constructor Type selector to modal
- fixed Classic control initialize problem in WordPress 5.6 update
- fixed constructor disabled Update button
- fixed constructor controls label margin
- fixed compatibility with Amazon S3 Offload Media plugin (changed image and gallery controls image URL retrieve method)
- minor changes
- added possibility to select image preview size for Image and Gallery controls (Medium size by default)
- added possibility to filter custom block output using php filter https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/lzb-block_render-output/
- added description data in Image and Gallery controls
- update image and gallery control data in custom block dynamically for output actual image data
- improved custom block template path filters https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/lzb-block_render-include_template/
- fixed possibility to use Post data in custom block render preview
- fixed constructor Align attribute duplications bug
- added possibility to hide admin menu item using php filter https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/lzb-show_admin_menu/
- improved icon picker cache method
- fixed controls default values loading while rendering (for example, default value of Checkbox control now will be
) - minor changes
- added support for WordPress 5.5
- added support for theme template files https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/blocks-code/theme-template/
- added Output Format option for Select and Radio controls
- You can output Label
- You can output array with Value and Label
- added RTL support
- added code to force enable Gutenberg editor on "lazyblocks" post type pages
- added code for custom blocks constructor pages, that force enables it and inserts
- added support for "Frame" and "Custom CSS" Ghost Kit extensions
- added "PRO Survey" link in the admin menu to get help from users
- changed default category to "text"
- Don't forget to update categories for all your custom blocks
- Since WordPress 5.5 added new categories: Text, Media, Design
- Removed categories: Common, Formatting, Layout
- fixed errors in editor preview, when using
function (now it is working as on frontend) - fixed slashes save in lazyblocks meta data (fixes custom code slashes)
- fixed custom block code editor content when switching between Frontend and Editor tabs
- fixed JS error when opened "lazyblocks" list admin page
- minor improvements
- added JS files translation
- added reset button to URL control
- added help link to "Save in Meta" control option
- added higher priority for registering post templates (possible fix for custom post types)
- fixed custom fields support conflict with constructor interface
- fixed JS build error
- added support for required fields inside repeater
- prevent possible bugs with adding custom blocks using PHP (register custom blocks inside
hook with priority = 20) - fixed repeater and Classic Control usage when all rows opened
- fixed repeater control undefined value error
- fixed custom categories registration conflict with 3rd-party plugins
- fixed update control array data in Constructor (can't clear)
- added WordPress 5.4 compatibility
- added 12 hours format for Time Picker automatically based on WordPress settings
- removed the possibility to disable both date and time in Date Time Picker control
- fixed inability to remove all controls from custom block
- fixed possible PHP 7.4 error because of admin Tools export checks
- fixed error when no icon specified to custom block
- fixed Date Time Picker control displaying selected value
- fixed Classic Editor control rendering bug when used in multiple custom blocks
- fixed Allow Null value save in Select control
- hide "duplicate" button from Inner Blocks control in constructor
- fixed checkbox and toggle controls meta filter php error
- added custom controls API https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/examples/create-custom-control/
- added Export / Import JSON for custom blocks and templates https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/export-blocks/
- added error messages to File, Image and Gallery controls
- added Width option to controls
- added alongside option to Checkbox and Toggle controls
- added Example Block after plugin activation
- added Classic Editor control https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/blocks-controls/classic-editor-wysiwyg/
- added possibility to include plugin code in themes and 3rd-party plugins https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/examples/include-lazy-blocks-within-theme-or-plugin/
- changed block icons to Material SVG https://material.io/resources/icons/
- fixed change value in Rich Text and Code Editor
- fixed errors when no specified block icon or title
- fixed Rich Text control styles
- fixed PHP errors when control type is not defined
- fixed height of Select component
- fixed file control Upload button error, when no allowed mime types selected
- fixed possible PHP warnings when control meta used, but array item doesn't exist
- fixed URL control paddings
- fixed constructor admin list mobile devices styles
- fixed required notice position
- removed Multiple option from Radio control
- constructor
- improved UI
- added Duplicate and Delete buttons on controls
- added icons to Controls
- added control placeholder if label is not specified
- added control
no label
if label is not specified - improved placement settings (changed select to buttons)
- improved date time settings (changed select to buttons)
- fixed select component style
- fixed select component z-index
- fixed document tabs margin
- fixed overflow and dropdowns sidebar
- fixes for WordPress 5.3
- fixed placement control when enabled option
and setplacement
- added support for PHP output method (instead of Handlebars)
- added new Repeater options:
- Row Label
- Add Button Label
- Minimum Rows
- Maximum Rows
- Collapsible Rows
- added Characters Limit option to text controls
- added js actions to PreviewServerCallback component (before change and after change), useful for developers https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/js-actions/
- added support for Ghost Kit Extensions
- added
filters for both contexts using single filter name (frontend and editor) https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/ - added filter for output attributes https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/php-filters/
- improved Meta setting (use control name as meta if custom meta name is not defined)
- fixed encoded values in Repeater controls
- fixed possibility to add more than 1 InnerBlocks control per custom block
- added experimental Required option for top-level controls
- added possibility to choose which custom blocks and template export on Tools page
- changed Templates page to use React
- changed Tools page to use React
- fixed PHP error when className is not available in the custom block
- fixed PHP warning when used multiple select options
- minor changes
- added File control
- changed anchor attribute settings (fixed anchor save in the latest Gutenberg)
- fixed select control value save (if no Multiple option set)
- fixed InnerBlocks with option "Hide if block is not selected"
- fixed boolean meta data of constructor save (convert to string)
- fixed order of controls was not saved
- fixed php error when no custom blocks available
- fixed selecting inner repeater controls
- fixed control styles disappear while resorting
- prevent control selection on drag handler click
- prevent control selection on repeater toggle click
- Improved Constructor UI
- Custom block setting moved to the right side (Inspector)
- Control setting opens in Inspector when you select it
- added alpha channel option to Color Picker control
- added 'Save in Meta' support for Repeater field
- added possibility to hide custom block previews in editor
- added possibility to use single code output for both Frontend and Editor
- added Select Multiple option
- fixed custom block preview loading when returned empty string
- fixed Keywords, Align and Condition custom block settings save when empty
- added block slug validation in constructor
- added slug creation if don't exist after block title added
- fixed controls saving in new custom blocks
- fixed icon picker button styles in constructor
- changed Block Constructor page to Gutenberg
- added option to hide controls if custom block is not selected
- added Radio control
- fixed duplicating of categories selector in custom blocks constructor
- fixed custom block ID duplication
- fixed custom block preview loading error
- fixed custom block names some characters
- fixed custom post types publishing
- fixed error if custom post type removed, but the template for this post is still available
- fixed controls save when updating Lazy Blocks post in WordPress 5.1
- added
action insideinit
- trim class attribute value on frontend output
- fixed loading Templates admin page and select initialization when more then 1 template added
- fixed Range control with Save in Meta option
- fixed JS error on all admin pages
- fixed Handlebars PHP 7.3 error
- added action to add Handlebars custom helpers (info in documentation)
- added filter to disable frontend block wrapper of the custom block (info in documentation)
- improved columns in admin list of custom blocks
- extended list of symbols that need to be removed from the block slug
- fixed PHP output for frontend if HTML output is empty
- fixed losing Frontend & Editor output data when added output PHP filters
- added support for custom blocks PHP preview rendering in Editor
- added toggle button in Repeater control to toggle all rows
- added custom block slug validation and automatic creation in constructor
- added descriptions to additional block fields in constructor
- added new attribute
that will adds automatically on each custom block - added title on Image and Gallery attributes object
- changed Editor rendering to AJAX also for Handlebars templates
- changed output for custom blocks – always added wrapper with block class
- added unique
attribute to each custom block attributes and in editor wrapper
- added unique
attribute to each custom block - simplified enqueue in admin templates page
- fixed do_shortcode wrong attributes output (reserved
attributes) - fixed Range control saving value
- added filter for output frontend PHP of custom blocks (read in documentation)
- added Allow Null option to Select control
- added Help option in controls
- added Placeholder option in controls
- added all existing categories in custom block categories selector
- fixed gallery control editable images
- fixed dropzone position in image and gallery controls
- fixed custom category title changing to slug
- fixed automatic fill of control name in constructor
- fixed date control error in WP 5.0
- minor changes
- fixed templates loading in Gutenberg 4.5
- fixed do_shortcode work with Image control value
- fixed controls errors in Gutenberg 4.2.0 (Gallery, Image, Code Editor)
- added Inner Blocks control
- added support for custom frontend render function (use PHP instead of Handlebars) https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/blocks-code/php/
- added possibility to resort Repeater rows
- changed Repeater control styles
- disabled autofocus in URL control
- fixed URL input width
- fixed Number control value save
- added RichText control
- added possibility to use all registered blocks in posts templates
- added selector with search and block icons to easily find and add blocks to templates
- added Free Content block to use in templates when template locked
- added + button inside Repeater block
- added Range control
- added Color Picker control
- added Date Time Picker control
- added Documentation link in admin menu
- improved URL control to search for available posts in blog
- fixed catchable fatal error when use do_shortcode Handlebars helper
- added support for custom categories https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frontend-html/
- improved do_shortcode handlebars helper to work with attributes. Read here how to use – https://www.lazyblocks.com/docs/docs/examples/shortcode-gutenberg/
- fixed image field data conversion to array
- changed admin menu method (simplified)
- fixed capabilities bug https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permission-error-when-accessing-plugins-admin-pages/
- Initial Release


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Permaculture is a design system for sustainable living. It can also be thought of as the science of assembling beneficial relationships.
In, "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual," Bill Mollison describes permaculture as the conscious design, creation and maintenance of an agriculturally productive ecosystem that has the stability, resilience and diversity of a natural ecosystem.
Permaculture is both a philosophy of earth care and a functional design system based on a clear set of ethics and design principles.
The ethics are
- Care of the earth
- Care of people
- Create and share surplus
Check out this cool set of videos where Bill Mollison himself is teaching you Permaculture for free.
These videos were made by Elizabeth Sollit with NetWorks Productions at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glenn Rose, Texas between 1993 and 1996.
Some of Texas current permaculture teachers like Gary Freeborg and Kirby Fry can be seen sitting in the audience at times.
The principles are
- Achieve the biggest bang for your buck
- Every element must perform multiple functions
- Every essential function must be supported by multiple elements
- Everything is connected
- Energy efficient planning
- Using biological resources
- Energy cycling
- Small-scale intensive systems
- Stacking and packing
- Polyculture and diversity of species
- Increasing "edge" within a system
- Observe and replicate natural patterns
- Pay attention to scale
- Attitude
David Holmgren modernized and streamlined them:
- Observe & Interact
- Catch & Store Energy
- Obtain a Yield
- Apply Self-regulation & Accept Feedback
- Use & Value Renewable Resources and Services
- Produce No Waste
- Design From Patterns to Details
- Integrate Rather Than Segregate
- Use Small and Slow Solutions
- Use and Value Diversity
- Use Edges and Value the Marginal
- Creatively Use and Respond to Change
Check out Austin Permaculture Guild's website www.austinperm.com for upcoming classes in the Austin Area
We have a really busy listserve (100-300 messages per month). Join below:
Check out some more useful info such as Permaculture tips, Austin permie resources and maybe some book recommendations
Want to take a PDC (Permaculture Design Course) then check out this nice little video


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Many Americans forget the role that states played during the American Revolution and in the formative years of the United States. And many North Carolinians forget the valuable role that our state played in that war and in constitutional thought. This memory loss has contributed greatly to chipping away at the federalist foundation of the American form of government.
We have an opportunity to revisit a crucial chapter of that history Tuesday, when North Carolina commemorates the 235th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves. With the adoption of the Resolves, North Carolina became the first colony to declare independence from the crown, nearly three months before the Continental Congress announced the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. The General Assembly will mark the anniversary by holding session in the Capitol Building.
Definitions are important for a proper historical understanding of the founding era. Let's consider the Declaration of Independence — the 29 grievances against King George III listed by the American colonies. The words "State" or "States" are mentioned throughout, and the "united States of America" complained about the monarch's abuse of power. The capitalization of states is important. Americans meant something different when using the word state then than they do nowadays.
Today, states act more like functionaries of the national government, and state legislatures fear losing national money and therefore implement national programs that legislators might otherwise reject. When the Founders used "State" in 1776 and in 1789, a state possessed more sovereignty that it does now, and it was more on par with England and France than with its counterparts such as Yorkshire in England or Brittany in France.
Americans also use "Congress" differently now, too. In the late 1700s, the word was understood to mean a meeting of delegates from sovereign states who voted on matters. This understanding derived from The Congress of Westphalia (1648), in which delegates from various sovereigns voted on a peace treaty and its provisions and thereby ended the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War in Europe.
I hear federalism (or states' rights) mentioned now on radio and television talk shows more than I've heard in some time. That's good. But in an age when even conservatives have adopted a modern, political mind-set and believe all answers originate in Washington, D.C., history needs to be taught now — maybe more than ever. Because as the prolific, conservative political thinker Russell Kirk reminds readers in his The Conservative Constitution, all political terms have a history, and even good statesmen can commit egregious errors if they are ignorant of those histories.
The Declaration of Independence is an important document, to be sure. But Americans view it many times with an anachronistic lens that distorts the past and obscures the documents' federalist underpinnings. Americans, many of them at least, are unaware that many states basically had declared their independence from Great Britain before the colonies did collectively. In North Carolina, The Fourth Provincial Congress empowered delegates to vote for independence with delegates from other states. Virginia, to name another example, acted similarly a couple months later.
It was a great concern for North Carolinians, and colonists elsewhere, to know that their state approved such an action, and many would never have approved the Declaration of Independence without the Halifax Resolves adoption.
The last paragraph of the Halifax Resolves reads: "Resolved that the delegates for this Colony in the Continental Congress be impowered to concur with the delegates of the other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign Alliances, reserving to this Colony the Sole, and Exclusive right of forming a Constitution and Laws for this Colony, and of appointing delegates from time to time (under the direction of a general Representation thereof) to meet the delegates of the other Colonies for such purposes as shall be hereafter pointed out."
The Declaration of Independence was not written in a top-down approach in which national leaders had an idea, expressed it, and state leaders followed suit. It was an approach that came from the bottom-up — from the colonies, from the states.
First, there was the Halifax Resolves. Then there was the Declaration of Independence.
Originally published in CarolinaJournal.com – reposted here with permission of the author.
Troy Kickler [send him email] has been Director of the North Carolina History Project since August 2005. He holds an M.S. in Social Studies Education from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. His specialty areas are nineteenth-century U.S., Civil War and Reconstruction, African American, and religious history.


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Guests: Alexi Giannoulias, Richard Durbin, Lynn Sweet, Charlie Crist,
Nicolle Wallace
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: From the University of Illinois in Chicago, let's play HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Don't ask us what we're doing to get people to vote. We're bringing the election to them, here at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Leading off tonight, the battle for the Senate Chicago-style. Before he was president, Barack Obama was a senator from Illinois. Now, Chicago, a major battlefront in who controls the entire Senate.
We've got Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias joining us here in a minute.
MATTHEWS: Plus, Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist called his Republican opponent, Marco Rubio, an extreme right-wing candidate. Rubio accused Crist of leaving the party, the Republican Party, for his own survival. Tonight, we'll talk to Charlie Crist about his prospects on November 2nd.
And my home state, Pennsylvania, the hot race for the Senate grows even hotter. Two new polls show Democrat Joe Sestak has pulled slightly ahead of Pat Toomey, the Club for Growth conservative. The two will debate for the first time tonight. We'll have him, Joe Sestak, at Temple University in north Philadelphia tomorrow night in the HARDBALL college tour as we continue.
Right now, right here in Chicago, the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias.
MATTHEWS: Just to make it official, we invited Mark Kirk, the Republican, to come join us on the campaign tour here. We're going to get (ph) to hear (ph) he'll say yes. Some day, he will. We'll have him on when he says yes.
Alex Alexi Giannoulias, sir, let's take a look at your ad. It's all about you and President Obama. Let's watch. Let's listen.
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS (D-IL), SENATE CANDIDATE: I'm Alexi Giannoulias, and I approved this message.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Alexi is my friend. I know his character. You can trust him. You can count on him. And I'm sure a lot of you have heard of what he did for Hard Marks (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were going to lose our jobs.
OBAMA: When a big bank threatened to pull their credit, Alexi stepped n.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Alexi really stood up with us.
OBAMA: Alexi helped save those jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need more people like Alexi in politics, a person that cares.
OBAMA: That's the kind of person you want in the United States Senate.
MATTHEWS: You know—you know, the great thing—just to make a value judgment, I like politicians who say where they're at. You're with the president.
GIANNOULIAS: Yes, sir.
MATTHEWS: You're with the president. So many people out there are cutting and trimming and saying they're not really with him, they're sort of with him, maybe with him, sometimes with him. You're with him.
GIANNOULIAS: Yes. I mean, I think if you look at, you know, what was done over the last couple of years, you know, we were in a very difficult place and we were on the road to a second Great Depression. And I think steps were taken that I think long-term history will judge him as someone who did the right thing.
MATTHEWS: Why isn't the country ready to say that? Because the facts you just gave us are easy to argue. We all were on the verge of a Great Depression. Look at how President Bush tried to act and save the big banks and the big financial institutions. He was blowing the whistle, hitting the panic button. Everyone saw the reality. How can everybody forget that in less than two years?
GIANNOULIAS: Well, I think when people are losing their jobs or losing their homes, they don't have health care, they're scared and concerned, it's a bleak job market for young men and women—you know, people are dealing with enormous challenges. And there's anger. There's frustration. We see it every single day.
But that's not the reason to not get out and vote and not pay attention. That's why we need people as engaged as ever, as involved as ever, paying attention to what's happening so we can turn this economy around and create the next generation of private sector jobs right now.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about the big issue. Tom Brokaw of NBC the other day wrote a big piece in "The New York Times" saying these candidates are not talking about the wars we're fighting. Young men and women are being killed and wounded, in many ways dismembered, by IEDs over in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. We're fighting a hot war over there, and Iraq's coming apart again. Let me get the facts straight. Were you for the Iraq war?
GIANNOULIAS: No. And I think there's a stark choice in this race.
My opponent, Congressman Kirk, not only voted for the war in Iraq, he
actually convinced other members of Congress. He said he knew to a, quote,
"moral certitude" that there are weapons of mass destruction. And you if
you look at the over trillion dollars that we've spent in Iraq, 4,500 lives
more profoundly, 4,500 lives, and more importantly, the fact that we took our eye off the prize of where the terrorists who were responsible for 9/11 were. So here we are a decade later, adrift in Afghanistan. And those decisions have repercussions.
MATTHEWS: Let's look at Iraq for the first instance. The biggest political issue in 2006 and 2008, of course, was the Iraq war. It's the reason why, I think, Barack Obama, I think you would agree was, the Democratic nominee because his opponent, Senator Clinton, was on the other side. Fair enough. A good debate. I think he's right.
Look at what's going on in Iraq right now, react to it. We're seeing the Sunnis that were once in charge there now joining the insurgents. It looks like the whole war, the minute we leave, is going to start all over again. Does that make a case for us having gone in or not?
GIANNOULIAS: Well, look, I think, again, we took our eye off the prize. More importantly, the terrorists that were responsible for 9/11 -- we've had seven years of policy that was completely adrift in Afghanistan before President Obama took over. He took over. He's trying to put together some sort of a timeline in Afghanistan. And I hope what you're saying in Iraq doesn't come true. I think Saddam Hussein had to go, but again, we took our eye off the prize.
MATTHEWS: OK. Do you think we should stay in the war in Afghanistan past next July in force, or should we begin to leave?
GIANNOULIAS: I can't envision a scenario where I would be in favor of staying there. I mean, a strict military approach has never worked, Chris, has never worked in the region. We need to have—
MATTHEWS: If Petraeus says to stay and the president says to go, who are you with?
GIANNOULIAS: Well, again, I think, I—it would be tough for me to
envision a strategy where we would stay, but I would listen to the troops
on the ground, the commanders on the ground. But it'd be tough for me to -
MATTHEWS: OK, let's talk about unemployment in this country. Right now (INAUDIBLE) about a 10 -- I don't know about the—how many kids out here? Let's talk about you right now. Is it a—
MATTHEWS: Is it a tough job market out there?
MATTHEWS: OK, now, that's problem. Everybody here is going to have the hardest time. I mean, I was (INAUDIBLE) Whoopi Goldberg saying they're going into a pooh storm, OK? It's tough out there. I got kids in their 20s. It's really tough.
And here's the question. If you look at the big numbers, 15 million people right now signing up for unemployment that aren't able to get jobs, who are out there actively looking, 15 million people—you got another number almost as big that are working as—it's a nice phrase, "freelance." They're really not getting paid full-time salary. They're not really getting benefits. They're not getting health. They're not getting pensions. They're basically working at the whim of an employer, right, part-time, maybe full-time for a while.
This is a huge problem. What are we going to do about it as a senator? If you get in, what will you do about it?
GIANNOULIAS: I think, again, our priority needs to be on creating jobs. I think there are a number of opportunities that, quite frankly, we're missing. We could be investing in infrastructure, in innovation—
GIANNOULIAS: -- the next generation of—
MATTHEWS: I'm with you. We got a $1.6 trillion debt right—deficit right now. How do you sell the American people we got rebuild this whole country? Why aren't we having rapid rail? Why do the French have all this stuff? Why do Chinese have rapid rail? They go 300 miles an hour across their countries. Why don't we do it? Why don't we build America?
MATTHEWS: And why don't—why don't—and can you sell that to the American voter who's worried about the deficit?
GIANNOULIAS: I think when we tell the American voter, Listen, Europe spends over 5 percent of their GDP on infrastructure, China spends over 9 percent of their GDP on infrastructure, in the United States, we spend less than 2.3 percent of our GDP on infrastructure. The American—
MATTHEWS: Well, what are we spending it on?
GIANNOULIAS: The American Society of Engineers has given our national infrastructure the grade of D-minus. We have functionally obsolete roads, bridges. At a time when there are millions of Americans sitting idly by, we should be investing in high-speed rail, in our roads and building new schools, you know, 10 million gallons of water a day because of leaking water pipes—
MATTHEWS: Why did America stop building? Would Chicago get built today? Would Washington get built today? Would the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower be built? Would the Golden Gate Bridge be built today? Would the interstate railroad system be built today, the continental railroad?
I get a sense we don't do anything anymore. We just pay bills, we don't create anymore.
MATTHEWS: Why is that? Why did we stop building America?
GIANNOULIAS: I don't know. But I can tell you when I get to the U.S. Senate, it's going to be one of—one of my focuses. And I think, again, we're missing opportunity—
MATTHEWS: Name a great senator. Who's a great senator you'd like to be like? Mine's Pat Moynihan. Who would you like to be like?
GIANNOULIAS: Dick Durbin, Paul Wellstone—
MATTHEWS: All politics is local, right?
MATTHEWS: Dick Durbin! That's a great—that's a real—
GIANNOULIAS: Dick Durbin is the finest—
MATTHEWS: That is a gutsy move!
GIANNOULIAS: -- senator in the country.
MATTHEWS: He's coming on the show. That's a gutsy move. Who are you going to vote for for of the leader Senate if Reid loses, Durbin or Chuck Schumer?
GIANNOULIAS: Chuck Schumer's a wonderful guy, but I'm a Durbin guy.
MATTHEWS: So you voted often and voted early?
GIANNOULIAS: Let's just say that Senator Durbin is a great friend, a great senior senator, and—
MATTHEWS: I like the fact you're direct. You like Obama. You like his program. You like his economic policy. You want to do more. You want to do infrastructure. You think the Iraq war was a mistake. You see no reason to stay in the war in Afghanistan past next July. You're very direct on all those things, right?
GIANNOULIAS: Yes, sir.
MATTHEWS: What's wrong with your opponent?
GIANNOULIAS: Look, again, I think—
GIANNOULIAS: I think the—you know, the untruths about his military career and the untruths about his teaching career, that's one thing. But at the end of the day, what's more egregious to me are the votes he's had in Congress. He's been there for 20 years, and I just think—Washington, D.C., is broken. We need some fresh leadership, some new ideas, some bold initiatives, someone who's going to focus on the next generation—
GIANNOULIAS: -- and have a vision for where this country—
MATTHEWS: What do you think of these people on the right now that are running the Republican Party? And I mean, going to run it. It looks like they're in charge. The most popular figure in the Republican Party today, according to national polling, is former Governor Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: The most popular figure in their party. It's not Mitt Romney. It's not George W. It's not George, senior. It's Sarah Palin. Do you believe that she's qualified to be president of the United States?
GIANNOULIAS: I don't.
MATTHEWS: You don't?
GIANNOULIAS: I don't. And I think—I think, quite frankly, people like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, their rhetoric I think is dangerous. And more importantly it's unhelpful to what we need to do to move this country forward.
Chris, people are getting crushed out there with this recession. We see it in Chicago. We see it in southern Illinois, in central Illinois. They're losing everything, their homes, their jobs.
MATTHEWS: Right.
GIANNOULIAS: They want someone who's going to bring ideas to the table, not just try and separate people in this divisive rhetoric about who's to blame for the problems. Let's just get things done!
MATTHEWS: Well, you're a very impressive guy. Now a real tough question.
MATTHEWS: All politics being local here in Chicago—
GIANNOULIAS: I'm a Bulls fan.
MATTHEWS: I'm not going to ask you Cubs versus White Sox. I'm going to ask you Rahm Emanuel. Would he make a great mayor of Chicago?
GIANNOULIAS: I am focused on November 2nd—
MATTHEWS: I finally stumped you! Thank you, Alexi Giannoulias. Thank you, the candidate for the United States Senate out here (INAUDIBLE) closest election in the country.
Coming up, let's look at the big picture and where things stand right now in the battle for control of the Senate and the House. And tomorrow, the HARDBALL college tour continues from Temple University in north Philadelphia with Senate candidate Joe Sestak. These kids are involved.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL, the college tour, from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Let's check in on the latest polls and the tight races around the country on the HARDBALL "Scoreboard." Let's start with Pennsylvania, where we'll be tomorrow night. And the second poll in a row now shows—look at this guy—Joe Sestak with a slight lead now over Pat Toomey. He was way behind. Sestak is up 3 in the new "Morning Call" Muhlenberg poll.
In Alaska, look at these numbers from the new CNN/"Time" poll. Lisa Murkowski and Joe Miller, both on the right, tied at exactly 37, with Scott McAdams down at 23. He's the Democrat.
In Washington state, some tightening there, Senator Patty Murray, I thought she was out of it—look, she's got a—I'm sorry—I thought she was way ahead. She's 1 point ahead now of Republican Dino Rossi. He's closing in the new Marist/McClatchy poll. These polls are going in all different directions.
A close race in Wisconsin again. Senator Russ Feingold's narrowing the gap, he's down just 2 now from Republican Ron Johnson, and he was way behind.
We'll continue to check the HARDBALL "Scoreboard" on all the big races each night leading up to November 2nd.
Right now, let's go to NBC's Chuck Todd and some new numbers from the NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll—Chuck.
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, sir. It's a macro-micro poll, Chris. You know, from 30,000 feet, it looks exactly the same, and frankly, that's not good news for Democrats because when you look at the right direction/wrong track, this looks like a change election environment. Just 59 percent -- 32 percent say right track, 59 percent say wrong track.
Look at 2006 in October, right before Democrats took control from Republicans, it was 61 percent wrong track. And then look at October of '94, when Republicans took it away from Democrats, it was 55 percent wrong track.
Bottom line, Chris, this is what a change election environment looks like nationally from this macro level.
MATTHEWS: And that looks like—if you just extrapolate, not project a whole lot, it looks like '94. It looks like 1980 even. It looks like a big transformation year to you.
TODD: Exactly. Look, it looks exactly like 2008 and 1980. You throw it in. We change—we fire incumbent parties when we feel this pessimistic about the direction of the country. That's what, you know, in the modern era of polling—we went back and went all the way back to '78 in the different mid-term elections, and this looks like one of those times where you're going to have a change election.
And in this case, we define change election as seeing 20 to 30 to 40 House seats change hands, and in this case, potentially having the Republicans even take back control.
MATTHEWS: Well, this makes your point, the generic poll, how people are going to vote for the congressional races now.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: It's going up now. It's a pretty big point, a 7-point advantage among likely voters—likely voters. And that's just (INAUDIBLE) it was only 3 points. Look at that. What seems to be happening is the undecideds seem to be moving to the Republicans there, from 46 up to 50, with the Democrats stuck at 43. They can't seem to get up to 50, Chuck.
TODD: That's right. And this is what our pollsters have been telling us, is, Hey—you know, they had measured the undecided vote over the last six—over the last six weeks and had said, Look, these folks—you know, they're—they like President Obama. They were more than likely to have voted for him in 2008. But they were disappointed with the direction of the country. They were disapproving of the job he was doing. They said, Look, these folks may have been Democratic voters in '08, but when they're asked to pull the lever, they're more than likely going to end up in the Republican column. We're seeing that.
Now, one footnote here, and this tells you—it explains to you why you're going to see so many surrogates on the trail in specific places for Democrats. When you polled all registered voters on the generic ballot, Chris, Democrats had a 2-point lead. The problem for Democrats is there's no enthusiasm in parts of the Democratic base, particularly among young voters, some African-Americans and some Hispanics. They don't look like likely voters. The enthusiasm gap is still there big-time in favor of the Republicans.
MATTHEWS: Well, how many people here are going to vote?
MATTHEWS: Well, let's take a look. That's some enthusiasm. Let's go right now -- 35 percent now say they'll vote, will be—show support for President Obama, and 34 percent say (INAUDIBLE) opposition. But that's an increase from August. What do you make of that? Let's take a look at another poll here. This is what matters to a House member, national issues or local issues. Are the Democrats picking up some hope there, Chuck, on this last point by focusing issues on their own districts, the ones they're defending?
TODD: You know, our pollsters call this "Can you see the footprints of the campaign?" What I like about this question—we asked it in August, and more people told us national issues matter more to them than what their member of Congress does locally.
Well, guess what? These guys went home. They started campaigning.
They made their own case. And now you're seeing 52 percent tell us, No,
you know what? We're going to judge them on their district work, 42
percent no national issues. Look, does that mean that all Democratic
incumbents are suddenly now in a better position? No. What this means is
this explains why 70 to 80 to 85 percent of incumbents, even in a very tough incumbent environment, end up getting reelected.
Campaigns matter, Chris. And, as these guys went home, their campaigns and their money, it has helped them draw a contrast with their Republican challengers, and, in some cases, probably rescued some seats that Democrats maybe three weeks ago thought they were going to lose.
MATTHEWS: OK. Chuck Todd, you are great. Thanks a lot for this.
MATTHEWS: Let's go back now to Illinois Democrat—well, he's the Illinois Democrat, the senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, the Senate majority whip.
MATTHEWS: He is in Philadelphia tonight, campaigning for Joe Sestak.
By the way, we will be there tomorrow night, Senator, at Temple University in North Philadelphia with the candidate Joe Sestak.
Your sense of this—and Sestak is moving in the polls back there—is he the kind of guy—I think Giannoulias is another guy here—who is going to buck the trend?
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D), ILLINOIS: I can tell you, I'm glad that you are in sweet home Chicago, Chris Matthews. And I wish I could be there.
DURBIN: But I'm glad to be in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection, as Mayor Nutter says.
But I will tell you what I'm seeing here on the ground, I see in every state I visit. We have got the ground game. Our people understand that Chuck Todd's statistics have to be translated into votes at home. And, as I go into the headquarters, Joe Sestak has 26 headquarters across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I went in today at 11:00. They are on the phones. They are working them hard. Nobody's taking anything for granted. The energy factor, the enthusiasm factor is moving them toward our side.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you about this fight out here between Giannoulias and Kirk. They are fighting about their war records.
I didn't get into it, because all they did last night was fight about it. Kirk seems to be a little confusing about how he presents his battle in the war. He says, well, at least I fought.
Is the issue whether you fought or whether you get the facts straight?
DURBIN: No, I think—let's say this. If you look at Mark Kirk's service to this country, it is something to be admired and respected. And I do.
I just don't understand why he wanted to go a step further and add things to his military record that didn't exist, to suggest that he had a background as a teacher, when, in fact, he had a very limited background as a person working in a day care center and working in a prep school in England.
I mean, these sorts of things are embellishing a record. They go beyond the simple question of whether he served in the military. Of course he did. It is a more important question about whether or not he is going to be straight with the people in his answers.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me get to two issues I care about. One is this foreign money thing and the whole question of corporate power.
If you ask any corporate person who is working for a big corporation, where a lot of the jobs are, they make their money today, they keep their Dow averages up by cost-cutting, by firing people, by limiting the number of American workers they hire.
If that's going to be the strategy of American business, if that's going to be their business model, screwing workers out of jobs, what are the Democrats going to do about it?
DURBIN: I can tell you it's a fundamental difference between Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk.
Alexi Giannoulias and I and the president believe we should close the tax loopholes that reward and make it easier for American companies to ship jobs overseas, period. Mark Kirk says, no, keep the loopholes in place. That's a dramatic difference.
If we are going to have good-paying jobs right here at home, let's reward those companies that pay a living wage, good benefits and retirement, so American workers can live the American dream. That's how you build this economy.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's talk about building.
It seems to me right now the consumption level in this country is down, the business investment is down. We need some other form of demand. And I say this almost every night. And other people on this network do, too. What happened to America's tendency over the years, up until now, to build stuff, like building Chicago out of nothing, building New York out of nothing, building the intercontinental railroad—
MATTHEWS: -- building the Golden Gate Bridge, building everything?
Now we see China with 300-mile-an-hour railroads. We see the French with them for 20 years now. They have got the Chunnel that goes through the English Channel. We don't build anymore. Nobody is making steel. Nobody is building railroads. Nobody is doing anything in heavy industry.
Young African-Americans grow up in all-white neighborhood with no jobs. What are we going to do about it?
DURBIN: We can doing something about it. And the president started us down that road.
Take a look at the state of Illinois, high-speed rail coming to our state, creating thousands of jobs, clean-coal technology grants coming into our state, the largest clean coal technology grant in our history to build a pipeline to reduce pollution, $250 million to bring high-speed Internet across the state of Illinois.
President Obama knows this is the way to build America. And he couldn't get a Republican, including Congressman Mark Kirk, to even stand behind him and cast a vote to move us forward with good-paying American jobs.
I couldn't agree with you more, Chris. Let's build the infrastructure for the 21st century, so that we can make America number one again.
MATTHEWS: Well, I don't mind the virtual world, but I like the real world, too, and I would like to get faster or rapid interstate or interconnectedness and all that. I would like to see trains going by again.
Anyway, thank you, Dick Durbin of Illinois.
DURBIN: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: And a reminder: We will be in Philadelphia tomorrow night at Temple University with Senate candidate Joe Sestak.
We have got much more coming up here from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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MATTHEWS: Well, that is the—the old Sears Tower, now the Willis Tower.
MATTHEWS: And here we are on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
MATTHEWS: We're right down Chicago Way here. There's a—by the way, there is a big mayor's race coming up here. And local politics, it matters a lot out here.
The former White House chief of staff, of course, Rahm Emanuel—
MATTHEWS: -- is running for mayor out here right now.
Joining us to talk about that hot race in Chicago, Lynn Sweet of "The "Chicago Sun-Times" and MSNBC—
MATTHEWS: -- contributor, political contributor, Jim Warren.
Lynn, is Rahm Emanuel the next mayor of Chicago?
TIMES": Not necessarily. He is a front-runner, not the front-runner.
MATTHEWS: Is this going all to be tribal and ethnic out here?
SWEET: Absolutely. The key is building a constituency and building a coalition to get you—
MATTHEWS: Absolutely. You say it with relish.
SWEET: Absolutely.
SWEET: I'm back home, and I—I know this.
MATTHEWS: So, there's going to be a black candidate. Who is that going to be?
SWEET: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Who is the leading black candidate, Carol—Carol Moseley Braun?
SWEET: No, it's—Carol Moseley Braun, a state senator named James Meeks.
But you have—no one can get to the 50 percent that is going to avoid a runoff in April.
SWEET: That is why coalition-building is the key.
MATTHEWS: Is there still a big Harold Washington team out here, an African-American base—
MATTHEWS: -- that can win the nomination, or win the election?
JIM WARREN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: No, I don't think so. It is kind of interesting that you bring up the—
MATTHEWS: Why? There's more Hispanics now? Is that what is going on?
WARREN: Well, right, a third, a third, a third, basically, white, Hispanic, and black.
It's funny you mention Washington, because, when he ran, he was a clear consensus candidate picked in basically behind-closed-door meetings. African-American leaders, including clergy, have tried to pull that off this time, are failing miserably.
MATTHEWS: They can't—they can't coalesce?
WARREN: They look—they look absolutely awful doing it. And there's absolutely no suggestion now that they're going to be able to do it.
And they look like old—old ward bosses—
WARREN: -- of the Daley—old Daley machine that they can't --
MATTHEWS: Is this like Philadelphia, where, if you're a white candidate, you want two black candidates to split the opposition; if you are a black candidate, you want two white guys?
SWEET: No. Right—right now, you want a lot of people running, so you only have to have a low-plurality win. You want the more the merrier, all the ethnic—
SWEET: -- so you can just get your vote out.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. Is Rahm Emanuel popular, after working for Barack Obama?
SWEET: The latest polls out in Chicago show that he is coming on strong, but he also started—
SWEET: But hold on. He is starting out as a celebrity candidate.
There's a lot of—
MATTHEWS: I want to ask you about another—
MATTHEWS: The governor of this state—how many people believe that Blagojevich is guilty as charged?
MATTHEWS: How many people believe he is squeaky clean?
MATTHEWS: Well, I think that was overwhelming. Does that surprise you? It seemed to.
WARREN: No, it doesn't surprise me.
What does surprise me is all of these smiling students. These guys here are owed $480 million by—by the state of Illinois—
WARREN: -- which is part and parcel of our near-California status, which is something whoever is the next governor, whoever is the next mayor is going to deal with, these absolutely ballooning deficits here.
Let's talk about this race. We just had this big—we just had Giannoulias here. He's very cool, very calm. I have talked to him on the phone a couple times before this. He seems like he is in good shape politically. Everybody else in the country who is a Democrat running for Senate, Boxer, coast-to-coast, they are nervous, pretty much. He is not nervous.
Why is he—does he know something we don't know?
MATTHEWS: Alexi Giannoulias was sitting here a few minutes ago, acting like maybe he has not got this thing in the—got it for sure, but he acts very confident. What is going on here in Illinois?
SWEET: What is going on is that he sees the path to victory, and that is, if there is a big Democratic turnout, which is possible, not there yet, big enthusiasm gap here, but you are going to have probably a lot of high-powered names --
MATTHEWS: Could this be the island in the middle of the country that goes—goes Democrat?
SWEET: If there's—
WARREN: No. I mean, I think it's an island in the middle of the country, in that one doesn't have the clear polarization that one has elsewhere. It is all a little bit more centrist, particularly in the top jobs.
But I think Alexi is—you know, is cutting a good image. But he is in a whole lot of trouble. It's—one big reason is there—Chris, imagine this. There are 900,000 Democrats in the state who voted in the presidential election who likely will not come up.
MATTHEWS: Yes. OK.
WARREN: It's one reason Obama—
MATTHEWS: Is this a Tea Party state or not?
SWEET: No. Absolutely not.
CROWD: No!
Thank you very much, as always, Jim Warren and Lynn Sweet. Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Up next, Governor Charlie Crist is joining us from Florida.
MATTHEWS: He's running behind Republican Marco Rubio in that Florida Senate race. Can he close the gap in the final days of this campaign?
MATTHEWS: Charlie Crist comes here in a minute.
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GOV. CHARLIE CRIST (I-FL), SENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I think that Obamacare was off the charts, was wrong. It taxed too much, has mandates that are probably unconstitutional, and it is not the way to g. And it was rammed through.
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MATTHEWS: That was independent Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist last night in that Senate debate.
And here is Crist's Democratic opponent, Congressman Kendrick Meek, reacting to that statement. Let's listen.
REP. KENDRICK MEEK (D-FL), SENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I'm just shocked to hear, you know, now the new lingo from the governor talking about Obamacare. I wonder if he said that to the president when he was walking with him on the beach.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A very quick rebuttal to the—the attack.
MEEK: I want the governor to respond.
CRIST: Sure. Thank you.
When we were on the beach, we were protecting Florida. And that's what I talked to him about.
MEEK: But you are for offshore oil drilling.
CRIST: I didn't interrupt you.
MEEK: You're for offshore oil drilling.
CRIST: No, I'm not.
MEEK: Well—
CRIST: I'm opposed to it.
MEEK: Oh—oh, now you are.
CRIST: He's the guy that wants offshore oil drilling.
MEEK: Now you are. Now you are. Now you are.
CRIST: You got them confused.
MEEK: I don't know. You were with Sarah Palin a couple years ago saying, drill, baby, drill.
CRIST: I never said, drill, baby, drill.
MEEK: You were clapping.
MATTHEWS: Well, Governor Crist is the man in the middle politically down there, and he took the lead with just—or can he take the lead with just two weeks to go? He joins us tonight from Tampa, Florida.
Governor, thank you for joining us.
You know, I thought a man like yourself, somewhere in the political middle, would have a lot of appeal this year. Is this a year in which there is no middle?
CRIST: I don't think that's true. I think there is.
And you can see it really in polling. If you look at the polling that has recently been brought to bear in the past month or so, a majority of Floridians are not for the Tea Party candidate, Marco Rubio. He, unfortunately, has an extreme right-wing, radical agenda, if you will, wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade , believes that, you know, things ought to be on the table regarding Social Security, such as raising the age of eligibility, privatization, things that in a state like Florida just don't work.
And so I think those things are problematic. And what I need to do in the next two weeks is just continue to tell the truth to the people of Florida, appeal to their common sense, instead of nonsense, and make sure that we have a candidate that they can vote for on November 2 that can both win on that day and also go to Washington and have a commonsense agenda to do what's right for Florida and right for America.
MATTHEWS: Well, this—this fight over where you stand politically has gotten almost primordial, almost like jungle discussions. I mean, candidates accuse you of hugging the guy on the issue of the stimulus package, that you walked on the beach with him.
It is idiotic. You say nonsense. It certainly is. Aren't you supposed to show some hospitality to the president of the United States when he comes to your state?
CRIST: I certainly—
MATTHEWS: And, yet, these opponents are jumping on this stuff, like you were hugging Arafat or somebody.
CRIST: I know. It's pretty remarkable. And—and—
MATTHEWS: What is the story in the—what is going on in Florida, which I thought had a centrist political mentality?
CRIST: Well, I think it still does. And I think that will be borne out on November 2, Chris.
I think that what you see is, my former party, the Republican Party, took a hard shift to the right. And simply by going and being with the president when he came to Fort Myers less than 30 days after he was inaugurated, came down to talk about the Recovery Act, and I had the audacity to go and visit and be decent to the man—I mean, he is the president of the United States.
And I thought that was only appropriate. It's how I was raised. And so I think some in the hard right of the party, though, felt that it was the wrong thing to do. Obviously, they thought it was the wrong thing to do.
But I thought it was the right thing to do. I know that it is. Civility and decency is what we need to restore in American politics, now more than ever. You see what's going on in Washington, the gridlock, the finger-pointing—you know, and so much of this anger, it doesn't get America to move forward.
We have to have reasonable minds with common sense put forward the kinds of ideas and the kinds of real solutions that will make a difference instead of, you know, the parties fighting with each other, instead of working for the people first.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's take a look at your debate last night because I don't think I saw a lot of civility there last night. And, in fact, I wondered about your position on the president right now.
Let's take a look at the issue as it developed. Here's Marco Rubio, let's have your attack at this point against Rubio, the guy you call somewhere on the right. Let's listen.
CRIST: You know, there's an expression in Washington called pay-to-play. Now, what does that mean? Well, let me relate it to and the possibility of what it means here in Florida.
When the speaker was speaker of the Florida House, he had a home here in Miami, in south Florida. It was for sale. And before that sale took place, he was on the other side of a personal injury protection issue. It was a Dr. Cereceda that he ended up selling the home to that had an interest in that issue. Once he sold the home for $380,000, cash, the speaker's position on the issue changed and all of a sudden, miraculously that bill went through.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's Rubio's reaction to your charge. Let's listen.
MARCO RUBIO ®, FLORIDA SENATE CANDIDATE: The governor's running on this had idea that he's some sort of a centrist, saying he wants to go to Washington and change the tone of Washington. And yet, in front of the live audience in this state, he's just launched a vicious personal attack against me based on a falsehood.
The governor switched parties, after he took a poll, it was documented. You talk about newspapers, Governor, the "St. Pete Times" had a reporter with Governor Crist on the day he switched parties. And you know what the last call he made before he switched parties was? To his pollsters, and when his pollsters told him that he had a better chance to win as an independent than as a Republican—
MODERATOR: Let's move on. I'm going to have to take control here. Let's take control of the personal attacks and move on to some more substance.
MATTHEWS: Is this what politics has come to? You go back in somebody's past. Are you really charging him with hanky-panky, with having done something here in terms of his sale of his home that was involving some kind of pass-through, or is being passed through some money in the home purchase or home sale that was somehow illegal or improper?
What are you saying here?
CRIST: Oh, we don't know, Chris. It's very suspicious though. And the Sarasota—
MATTHEWS: Why do you bring it up if you don't know?
CRIST: Because "The Sarasota Herald Tribune" brought it up about a week ago and said people have the right to know the way public officials comport themselves. You know, some are there for public service. Others are there for self-service.
I've never been there for self-service, but only to service the people of Florida that I love and care about so much.
Now, when a transaction like that takes place, people have a right to know, evaluate themselves. It's not personal. This is a public record. These things are on the record and reported by newspapers in the state of Florida.
I think before the people go to the polls and register their vote, they need to know what all the facts are. And they are smart enough to figure out what they want to believe about them, what they think truth is, and then make their conclusion.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Yes. Well, I got to tell you, Governor, I'm big fan of yours politically, but this is the kind of politics that gets to you in the last week or two, I hate it. It's got nothing to do with what kind of a voting record you or he are going to have in Washington.
But thank you for coming on, Charlie Crist, governor of Florida.
CRIST: It's good to be with you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Up next, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked Anita Hill to apologize. She left a message on the phone. What's this all about? Let's find out why this story is coming back again.
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MATTHEWS: Wow, I love doing these groups.
Anyway, we are back now nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Justice Thomas' wife, Ginni, well, just the other day, phoned Anita Hill and asked for an apology.
It was the morning of October 9th and Ginni Thomas left a message on Anita Hill's office voicemail at Brandeis University where she's a law professor.
Here is what the notes said: "Good morning, Anita Hill. It's Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something I would love to you consider, an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So, give it some thought and certainly prayer—pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day."
MATTHEWS: Well, Anita Hill turned the message over to the Brandeis campus police with a request from her to, of course, notify the FBI.
Her statement reads, "I certainly thought the call was inappropriate. I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony."
Once again, a story with so much context missing, you wonder if you are getting the heart of it.
Howard Fineman is the senior political editor of "The Huffington Post" and MSNBC political analyst. And Nicolle Wallace was a strategist for the McCain campaign and author of the book "Eighteen Acres."
Nicole, good luck with your book. I'm going to start with you and I want to ask you about this. Is there something we're not getting here? What was going on really between Anita Hill—not Anita Hill, the court nominee, now the member—n associate justice of the Supreme Court, was there something in that whole story we didn't get? Their relationship, for example—I don't know if it was relevant, I never understood what it was.
Is there something missing here why Anita Hill, a law professor, obviously knows what she's doing would go to the FBI with this call that seems fairly innocuous? What are we missing here?
NICOLLE WALLACE, AUTHOR, "EIGHTEEN ACRES": You know this is one of those stories that completely scrambles my circuits, Chris. And I have more questions than conclusions about what happened.
But I'm open to the possibility that this is simply a window into what has been for the Thomases, probably far more central to their life, even now 20 years later than any of us could guess, that the pain and the humiliation of what went on 20 years ago must still be so close to the surface for them for her to have left a message like this. And I'm more fascinated by the human drama that's been created.
I too, think it was interesting the way the message was handled. You certainly know when you turn something over to the authorities that it's going to be public and it seems like from everything that I've read that Anita Hill is interested in leading a private life. So, the whole thing, as I said, completely scrambles my circuits.
MATTHEWS: Howard, again, the same question to you: is there something missing that needs to be reported here? Was she getting harassment calls from the right? Had she gotten a history of calls that made her feel endangered that justified or would suggest why she would go to the FBI with what seems to be a request to sort of close an issue, fairly or not, badly worded or not, it didn't sound threatening?
HOWARD FINEMAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think, as Nicolle said, this is a terribly painful experience, an episode to this day, all these years later, for the Thomases and for Anita Hill. Don't forget, these were personal relationships. These were deeply emotional dramas played out in the context where the whole country was watching. But yet it involved these people.
It's not just that Anita Hill asked the Brandies police to notify the FBI. Anita Hill played the—played the message for "The New York Times." You know, so, she clearly wanted the message to be heard. And I think she's just as wound up and bound up on this whole thing as the Thomases are all these years later.
Don't forget that a few years ago—Ginni Thomas, who's now a public figure, she's a political activist now, Chris. She has a PR firm. She has group called Liberty Central. She's tied in with the Tea Party. She's really campaigning the lower taxes and all of these other things.
You know, she's a public official. A number of years ago, she also asked Anita Hill for an apology. I think it was right after Clarence Thomas—Justice Thomas' book was published. Anita hill said no at that time.
She thought the matter was closed at this time and to have got then call out of the blue at her office on a Saturday morning, you know, last weekend, I thought was probably pretty shocking to her. I don't know that there's any more political motive in this for Anita Hill. I think Anita Hill wants a private life from the friends I know of hers I've talked to. She doesn't really want to be a national figure again, certainly in this context.
On the other hand, you know, there it is on the front page of "The New York Times."
MATTHEWS: I get back to you, Nicolle, on this. Do you think Ginni Thomas wanted this publicity?
WALLACE: I can't tell, you know? I mean these are smart people, but sometimes, as you know politicians do stupid things. These are people who really have lived a life under the microscope, extraordinary scrutiny on all parties involved. So, it makes you wonder, how could you leave a message like that, so compelling for so many reasons and not expect that we're all going to be talking about it?
But again, I'm convinced that the human drama and the human tragedy in all this, as Howard says, for all parties is what's driving everyone—that these were actions of passion. That these were not acts of calculation.
FINEMAN: Now, Chris, the timing of this is interesting. Ginni Thomas made the phone call on the same morning that a "New York Times" story appeared on the front page, I think, of "The Times" describing her—
MATTHEWS: What's that tell you, Howard?
FINEMAN: -- Ginni Thomas' political activities.
MATTHEWS: So what's it tell you, that coincidence?
FINEMAN: It tells me that—well, first of all, my understanding is that Ginni Thomas didn't mind "The New York Times" story. It's not like she felt pressured or attacked, she was actually proud of her role leading this Liberty Central thing, being involved in politics, which she'd always been from—you know, from the beginning going back 20, 25 years.
I think maybe she was thinking of herself as a public figure who wanted to try to tie up this most gigantic of loose ends so she could move forward with her own political activism and maybe not have to deal with the Anita Hill thing anymore. That's the only thing I can figure out at this point. This is not something that she did in consultation with her public relations or political advisers. Ginni Thomas did this completely on her own, as far as I know.
MATTHEWS: OK, I think it's going to be one of those cases that—not that it's on the same level something like Alger Hiss or O.J. Simpson, one of those cases. People take their sides on these fights, and the minute it comes back up again, the scabs ripped off and we all take sides again.
FINEMAN: Right. Exactly.
MATTHEWS: It doesn't seem to have anything to do with more information. We never get any more information.
Anyway, thank you very much, Howard Fineman and thank you.
FINEMAN: We can try.
MATTHEWS: Good luck, Nicolle Wallace, author of "Eighteen Acres," a great new novel.
WALLACE: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: When we return, I'm going to talk to the crowd out there in University of Illinois.
This is the HARDBALL College Tour, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back. We're back at University of Illinois in Chicago, on the campus.
We're going to ask these young people what they think we should be doing to create jobs for them. That's the real challenge. People in their 20s.
You, Miss?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I—
MATTHEWS: What can we do?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I think we should basically invest in education more. Which—
MATTHEWS: What do you think?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think that we have to invest in America's education. It all starts with the youth by creating more jobs for our students and give them more opportunity and potential to grow, we can create more opportunities and potential job growth for everything—things such as investing in green initiatives, and providing more education for America's youth.
MATTHEWS: You?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I believe that we have to make school more affordable. More loans.
MATTHEWS: What's it cost to go here a year?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For me, it's $28,000 a year -- $28,000, $29,000 a year. It's a lot. It's rough.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, education's way too expensive in America. We need better scholarship and grants for students to go to school.
MATTHEWS: Right.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think like he said it right. We start with education and then we create green technology, make it a new industry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got to hustle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need infrastructure. We need to build high-speed rail. We need to put Americans back to work. And produce things in this country again.
MATTHEWS: Real jobs, real jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Green jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to stop caring about China and bring it back here. We need to start creating jobs here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: New spending on green technology, as well as energy independence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I like—technology coming to California.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ship jobs oversea, duh.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Make what we do better, faster and innovate.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I agree with Alexi and I think we have to give tax breaks to middle-class families so that when we get out of school, we can all get jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A dollar tax on gasoline, it's an incentive to create green jobs.
MATTHEWS: I'm coming to you guys.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stop all the tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I agree with him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think that we should invest in more green technology.
MATTHEWS: Did you say agree with me?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no, no—
MATTHEWS: What do you think?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Infrastructure, green technology and education—all three have been said, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don't forget about the children.
MATTHEWS: OK, I got to talk to you tomorrow night. We're going to be at north Philadelphia, Temple University, with Joe Sestak, the hard-driving candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.
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I have made 200 bread and now the recipe fails.. help!
I have made maybe 200 bread the last year or maybe more. I don't know. I have found a recipe that has always worked.
But now it has suddenly stopped...
I use the exact same recipe.
This is normal:
And this is how it gest now:
Sometimes it also falls in the middle (like a u)
Sometimes is also seems a bit raw..
I have made about 50 bread the last month and it is the same problem every time...
The last 20 bread I have tried different things like using less water, less rising time, higher heat ++ The bread is getting better now that I'm using less water.
Before I use 940g flour and 1L water, today I used 1000g flour and 950ml water.
Why has this cahnged?
Yesterday I made cinnamon rolls. I have use that recipe so many times.. The dough was okey, it did rise very well. But when I put them into the oven they did not continue to rise (as they normally do..) they stayed the same hight before they falled together. They where 6 cm after rising, after baking they where 3 cm...
I have called the manufacter and they say that have not changed the ingredients in the flour mix I use.
Its so frustrating.
Does anyone have a idea on whats wrong? Why do they fall?
It was so fun making bread before but now its not fun anymore.. Before they dobeled in size after rising and then they did rise about 1 inch more in the warm oven.
Please help...
I was supposed to start my own bakery before this started to happen and now I don't think I can before I have "fixed" the dough..